A government ministry in England has been called on the carpet for the “impenetrable language peppered with jargon” in its reports. OK class, let’s use our reading strategies to make sense of this passage, shall we?
An overarching national improvement strategy will drive up quality and performance underpinned by specific plans for strategically significant areas of activity, such as workforce and technology. The capital investment strategy will continue to renew and modernise further education establishments to create state of the art facilities.”
Turn and talk to your neighbor and see if you can find the main idea. No? Hmmm. Let’s use context clues, then. The agency that wrote the passage in question is the “Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.”
They’re responsible for courses in basic literacy for adults.
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One of the interesting things about that passage is how the big words obscure lousy sentence construction.